Collier: The Donald Trump guide to multi-national calamity

The last time an American president and his entourage of dissemblers face-planted into an international calamity, there was at least the courtesy of a meticulously produced pre-game show.

George W. Bush, who was routinely blistered for his suspect intellect, but looks like a cross between Copernicus and Abraham Lincoln compared to the contemporary clown show, helped direct a months-long multi-front justification campaign in the ramp-up to the Iraq war that began 23 years ago this month.